5 mss. boxes 1 folder (2.2 cu. ft.) The material in this record group was confiscated by the state of Michigan during a raid at a convention of the Communist Party of America at Bridgman, Michigan, August 22, 1922. The bulk of the records centers on the "private" international movement to supply heavy industrial equipment and agricultural products to the Russian Federated Soviet Socialist Republic at the end of the Civil War and the advent of the new economic period. These records contain programs advanced by various groups in the United States and western Europe, programs to raise money to support these projects, and financial records of the programs. This record group also contains some materials on the role of the Communist Party in America and its operation of a separated legal party which would operate as a legal party as well as a clandestine revolutionary movement. In addition to these, the group also includes materials relating to the debate between V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky on the role that the Communist Party should take on achieving world revolution. Finally, many of the pamphlets and periodicals relate to the philosophical expansion of Marxism and its conflict with capitalism. The record group includes printed programs, platforms, theses on various subjects, periodicals, newspapers, as well as mimeographed, typewritten and manuscript materials.
